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Tonight, I was being a good student and doing my physics homework. I started to get hungry, and figured I'd just wait until I was done my homework to cook. Hurray, I was done! Oh my, it was 10:00pm.

Here's a meal that's filling and quick. Teriyaki chicken and noodles. You can make as much, or as little, of this as you want!

Here's the recipe I use for homemade teriyaki sauce:

• 2/3 cup soy sauce (for those of you who are health conscious- lite/low sodium soy sauce works great too!)
• 1/4 cup cooking sherry*
• 2 tablespoons white sugar**
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 clove garlic, minced
  
  
  1. In a bowl, combine soy sauce, sherry, sugar, ginger, and garlic (all ingredients)

*A suitible substitue for cooking sherry can be 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar, or any "sweet" vinegar you have around the house.

**Also, brown sugar also tastes great.

~Some people like to cook their sauce in a pan, depending on how you doctor this to your own taste, you may need to to thicken it up.

This is one of those recipies where you can doctor the ingrediants to your liking, and it still tastes great as long as you follow the basic recipe.

I had some leftover homemade teriyaki sauce in my fridge, so I didn't make any fresh tonight. But it doesn't take long to make, at all!

I grilled up some pre-cut chicken breasts I bought from the local grocery.

• Chicken is cooked once the middle is no longer pink. The chicken should be white all over, inside and out! 

I boiled a pot of water(I just put in enough to submerge the amount of noodles I'll be putting in, since all the water gets drained no measuring is needed here!) and added about a handful of rice noodles.

• Here's a trick to tell if pasta/noodles are done if you can never tell. Take a piece of the pasta, and throw it against the wall! If it sticks, its done!

Drain the water out of your pot when the noodles are cooked-- rice noodles get VERY sticky when they're not in water, so don't worry, you did nothing wrong! Place noodles into your serving dish(or for me, just a bowl!)

Pour a SMALL amount of teriyaki cause over the noodles. I said SMALL. A little teriyaki goes a loooong way, its very strong! And its always better to have not enough of something then too much when cooking. Gradually add the sauce to your liking.

Place your grilled chicken ontop of your noodles. I added a little more sauce to coat my chicken and mixed it all together.

Hey, if you're feeling adventurous, make a simple chicken stir-fry! Throw some veggie in a pan, cook 'em, add some teriyaki sauce and add them to your chicken and noodles!

This meal isn't going to kill your diet either! 

The homemade teriyaki sauce has 42 Calories, 0g of fat, and 0g of cholesterol. Bake your chicken instead of grilling or pan-frying it. Add some veggies. And limit your amount of noodles. The noodles would be the most fattening part of this meal(one serving size of noodles is about the size of a baseball!).

Sorry, no pictures tonight!

Enjoy~